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The newly introduced Transformation Fund can be used to enable cooperative reindustrialisation and create socially useful production by workers taking over factories when the owners close them down. Photo: File
FACTORY CLOSURE

Goodyear closure demands a paradigm shift: Workers must take over factories

The new Transformation Fund for companies in distress as a result of Donald Trump’s tariffs should be transferred to workers

  • Siyabulela Mama
4 min read
Six people have died and one remains unaccounted for after severe flash floods hit the Eastern Cape over the weekend.
EASTERN CAPE FLOODS

Six people dead and hundreds evacuated in Eastern Cape floods

Search-and-rescue operations continued overnight after 70 people were saved from the floods

  • Umamah Bakharia
2 min read
Nelson Mandela Bay councillors were forced by residents to visit filthy Siboni Street. Photos: Thamsanqa Mbovane
KARIEGA

Residents force Nelson Mandela Bay councillors to walk in streets flowing with sewage

The protesters in Kariega said they had for years been asking for roads and drains to be fixed

  • Thamsanqa Mbovane
3 min read
Six-year-old Liyema Nzewuza drowned in a hole filled with sewage last week. Municipal workers covered the hole up but when GroundUp went back, the filthy water was oozing out again. Photo by Thamsanqa Mbovane
BOY DROWNS IN SEWAGE

Furious residents confront Kariega officials after child drowns in sewage

Six-year-old Liyema Nzewuza will be buried today

  • Thamsanqa Mbovane
2 min read